Clarion 1970-09-18 Vol 46 No 01

Back together once more, the Jug Band presents its first 'concert' tonight at Moods '70.
Spiritual Emphasis Week coming;
don't develop artificial experiences
Robert Brunko
Ronald A. Cline
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Vol. XLVI—No. 1 Bethe l Col lege, St. Paul, Min nesota
By Wendell Wahlin
September 21-25 — another week
of drudgery and despair in the
books? Five days of agonizing, ev-eryday
school life? Far be the case,
for Monday, September 21, dawns
as the first of five stimulating, re-freshing,
enlightening and chal-lenging
days making up the annual
Spiritual Emphasis Week.
Through the guidance and in-sight
of our Campus Pastor, Mau-rice
Lawson, a week of stimulating
thought and activity is being plan-ned
for the entire Bethel commun-ity.
The week, which had been ob-served
annually for many years, is
designed to bring new faces, ideas
and challenges to students and fac-ulty
alike.
This special week, early in each
fall semester, has in past years wit-
E. G. Von Trutzschler
nessed evangelists, Bible teachers
and gifted lecturers share and
teach within our college commun-ity.
Returning students will re-member,
however, the innovative
team-style approach which brought
four laymen to a week-long 'live-in'
within our community one year
ago. Speaking daily in Chapel,
holding bull sessions in the dorms,
rolling up their sleeves in the Cof-fee
Shop, these men became part
of us for one week, listening to our
problems and our triumphs and
just sharing what insights God had
given them.
This year, Spiritual Emphasis
Week promises to be no let down.
The team participating in the
week-long activities has been ex-panded
to seven, including two la-dies,
and hails with national and
international flavor. The partici-pants
are: Ron Cline, Dean of Stu-dents,
Azusa Pacific College, Cali-fornia;
E. G. von Trustzschler,
Youth Director, San Diego, minis-tering
to hundreds of youth every
week, including those on drugs;
Jim Schulz, college age youth from
San Diego. One of Von's converts;
Paul Edwards, missionary from In-dia,
former teacher at Bethel; Rob-ert
Brunko, Conference pastor,
Chicago, pastoring a racially integ-rated
congregation in south-side
Chicago; Charlotte Ransom, former
C.E. director at Bethlehem Bap-tist,
Minneapolis, studying for
teaching credentials at St. Cloud
State; Carol Flumbaum, director of
social services and the girls' dorm
counsellor at Union Gospel Mis-sion,
St. Paul.
Dean Virgil Olson, looking at the
proposed events and guests of Spir-itual
Emphasis Week, said, "This
week should help us better under-stand
ourselves and the dynamics
of our spiritual community."
He went on to warn of danger.
"These types of weeks can be
mechanically manipulated to pro-duce
Christian experience." He ex-plained,
"We must be careful of
phonyness; we don't want to devel-op
artificial experiences!"
He went on to say, "What is
genuine is long term and constant.
This week will be a confrontation
with people and ideas. Maybe we
can catch some new insights."
Spiritual Emphasis Week is a
stimulant to our campus, an integ-ration
of the spiritual and educa-tional.
This week is designed as an
attempt to help develop the whole
man. Why don't you come along
and get involved?
by Dave Healy
Bethel should undertake a move
to the new campus by the fall of
1972. This was the major opinion
to come out of the annual combin-ed
faculty retreat, held this year
on September 1 and 2 at Camp
Courage.
The faculty's recommendation in-volves
"a single move to the new
campus by the fall of 1972 by the:
a.) sale of the present campus as
soon as possible; b.) providing for
basic space needs-100,000 sq. ft.
of the present plant; c.) building of
dorms with multiple use potential;
d.) provision of minimal facilities
for physical education and auditor-ium."
Additional construction to com-plete
the original building plan
would be accompiished as funds
became available.
The question of whether to stay
or move was the result of a group
dynamics session at the retreat.
The relocation issue eventually
emerged as the foremost concern
of the college and seminary facul-ty,
administration. and staff per-sonnel
present. The general feel-ing
of this group was and is that
the school's best interests would
By Joey Healy
What's the most exciting thing
ever? What's fantastic and terrifc
and fabulous? What's the absolute
greatest? You guessed it! Moods
'70!
The entertainment begins at 8:00
o'clock this evening in our very
own fieldhouse, which will be
transformed for the occasion. You
will be seated at round tables, with
candle-lighting to help set the
mood.
Admission charge will be 75
cents per person, or $1.25 per cou-ple.
Refreshments will be served
free of charge.
Included in the program will be
a comedy on the rings, a classical
kazoo number, serious and humor-ous
music, a Reader's Theatre, and
the Spit Band. This will be the
Spit Band's first public perfor-mance
since they recorded various
numbers for their first record al-bum.
"For those of you who have not
yet heard our Spit Band, this will
be a new and bland experience;
and, of course, if you have already
heard the Spit Band perform, you
will want to be there for sure."
says Bo Conrad, a Spit Band mem-ber.
"We are just a group of well-mannered,
typical, average, radical,
rugged individuals held together
only by our love of S & B music
(which is most closely related to
the jug band mode).
"This past summer we were
scattered over the face of the Un-ited
States—for 90 days and 90
nights we kept our (individual)
fingers nimble by playing sweet
melodies with low-down tones--
but on Friday night we will all be
playing together again. We don't
know yet what we will be playing,
but we and all the Mood's perform-ers
will be doing our best to give
our audience a joyous time. P. S.
Dean L. has promised to dance."
Jan Christenson, chairwoman of
Moods '70, says. "Since Moods is
the first big affair on campus this
year (and every year), we do hope
to start the year off right with a
fine performance."
The overall approach of Moods
'70 will be similar tc rlr, ivas
Moods, with little or no filler Pri-mary
emphasis will be on enter-tainment.
So come and be enter-tained.
be served if Bethel were to move
now and move completely.
The recommendation to relocate
by 1972 will now be presented to
the Board of Regents, who must
make the final decision. Dean Ol-son
has this to say about the situa-tion:
"Our decision reflects a de-sire
on the part of the faculty to
get out to the new campus as soon
as possible. The Board of Regents
is now responsible to study the is-sue."
The Dean also expressed hope
that the Board would make a clear-cut
decision either to go now or
wait for five years and then go.
Such a decision, he feels, would
eliminate the succession of date
postponements that have plagued
us until now.
The combined faculty also rec-ommended
that the following "con-tingency
plans" be observed until
the 1972 move: "a.) longer teaching
day—extended class schedule; b.)
college use of available seminary
facilities; c.) adjustment of space
at minimal cost to provide more so-cial
areas for students; d.) increas-ed
cooperation with other colleges;
e.) more coordination between en-rollment
and other student/teacher
ratio."
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Focus on institutions
What is community?
By Pat Faxon
I was quite surprised, upon re-turning
to Bethel this fall, to find
both the Dean and the President
talking about 'community'.
While attending the university
this summer, I was enrolled in a
course called 'The Politics of Eth-nic
Communities'. Perhaps because
politics is such an integrated part
of the American way of life, the
course turned out to be quite an
in-depth study of ethnic groups
and communities themselves—their
development, their problems, their
relation to society at large.
We, as a class, began to under-stand
the realization that if our
present urban crises are to be
solved, there must be some really
serious examination of the essen-tial
components of community life,
and some serious study and plan-ning
of how these components may
be rearranged on the community
level to give community members
a greater satisfaction and the op-portunity
to participate in the af-fairs
that affect their own lives.
It became evident to us that our
present systems of government are
highly inadequate in meeting the
problems we face today. The orig-inal
idea behind the systems is
great, but the idea has long been
lost in the maze of 'pork barrel'
additions along the way from a ru-ral
society to an urban one. We,
as a nation have changed; our
needs have changed, our way of
life has changed. And yet we are
still attempting to stretch the old
needs and methods of meeting
them over this rapidly expanding,
throbbing mass of life. We need a
new way of applying that original
good idea. Because the old one
doesn't work any more—even for
those of us who think it does. If
you doubt, think of our unsolved
poverty, racial and ecological prob-lems
to say nothing of education
and economy.
About this time it began to seem
to me as though we are at a very
important cross-road in our life as
a nation and society. Perhaps 'cross
road' does not adequately express
our position. Perhaps a better way
of expressing it would be to say
that we're at the end of the road,
and we must decide which direc-tion
we're going to build—whether
it be in the direction of subsequent
addition after addition in a patch-work
style of patching the patches,
sewing new pieces into the worn
out old original piece; or whether
to begin building something new
from the old pattern or style, but
which fits better, letting the an-tiquated
gradually disintegrate
from lack of use.
I began to realize that there's
more, or there should be more to
life in a society than coexistence.
`Community life' came more natur-ally
to the rural situation, but the
characteristics of the urban situa-tion
tend to pressure a sense of
community out of existence. The
components of a society should not
be constructed in such a manner
so that structures and members of
that society antagonize one anoth-er.
We need to reconstruct our
daily habits and our thinking to
develop a greater sense of com-munity.
A community is a unit whose ac-tivities
are complementary and co-operative
with other communities
and among its component members,
each participating and being used
to the capacity of his potential.
A community which uses not just
physical or mental capacity but his
entire potential as a human being
is going to be much stronger and
more satisfying one. It's one that
puts demands upon a person's per-sonal
and spiritual (not to be con-fused
with religious potential as
well. It demands of each individ-ual
that he be himself and reveal
himself, but that in doing so that
he give in when it's time to give
in, and stand out when it's time
to stand out. Here, however, a very
important distinction must be
made. There is a difference be-tween
'giving in' and stifling. One
involves force and the other does
not. When a person's potential, be
it physical, mental, personal or
spiritual, is stifled, the whole com-munity
is weakened.
A community can be a growing
fulfilling experience, or it can be
a cold war endurance test among
acquaintances. Members of the
Bethel Community, it's up to you.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
Copy Editor Marge Rusche
Sports Editor Rich Zaderaka
Reporters Dave Healy
Wendell Whalin
Joey Healy
Bill Ankerberg
Cindy Rostollan
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not necessarily reflect the position of Marge Anderson
the college or seminary. Photographer Jim Ammelsberg
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Listen to each other;
don't put God in box
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By Marjorie Rusche
Dial 332-3939 for instant heaven. A sweet soothing voice imparts
some wisdom to you from the Holy Scriptures, then expounds on it. The
message is a recording.
We, as young Christians, are forced by the context of our times to
fight sterile, death-centered Christianity. This Christianity, where Jesus
is portrayed as a sexless super-WASP that "sinners" project their guilt
on, calls all men "brother" if they're from the same socio-economic-cul-
. tural background and conform to the value system they believe in. This
Christianity is entrenched in the established order that puts down hu-manness
and creativity and glorifies materialism, efficiency, consistency,
technology, structure, and "going through the Proper Channels."
We are through with the old structures. The pre-packaged message
communicated via machine (the telephone) is a fitting symbol for a par-tial
explanation. The church does not listen. Machinelike, it reiterates its
spiritual laws and doctrines after receiving stimulus, and does so at a
safe protective distance.
Young Christians, we must never lose the newness and freshness
that comes from Jesus and God through the Holy Spirit. We must not
let ourselves be regulated into spiritual molds. We must never be afraid
to risk and fail, risk and fail, risk and fail again and again. Spiritual
growth involves spiritual risk and experimentation.
Only you can decide what is good and true for you. The Holy Spirit
will help you out. You know how the Spirit is working by how you feel
(your experience) and if you perceive any of the fruits of the Spirit—
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, tolerance—in your-self.
Don't accept anything only on the basis of authority.
Institutional Christianity put God in a box (which really is the un-pardonable
sin, to limit God and say he acts in such and such a way;
(which automatically blocks out the spontaneity of the Spirit) when they
conceptualized Him as a fixed absolute that is the same yesterday, today
and tomorrow. God's unbounded love, mercy, and justice are constant,
but the way which He reveals Himself to the individual varies with the
individual, the culture, and the time in history.
Having a community of people who are one in the Spirit is a beau-tiful
idea. Those of you who want to live what people feel good talking
about and aren't afraid of having people think you're blooming idiots
or high on dope, do your thing and spread the Spirit. Those of you who
are concerned about having a nice, pleasant, safe, "theologically sound"
Christianity better watch out because the Holy Spirit is all-pervasive.
It just might strike you next!
My brothers and sisters, don't let the powers-that-be put you down.
Ask the Holy Spirit and other people to help you if you're down, and
give out the fruits of the Spirit to people when you're up.
Interesting things may happen.
Huffalump's Fables
By Huffalump
Hello, I am Huffalump. I can be recognized (only on windy days) by
my huff and lump.
Raspberries are my favorite food, for they are juicy, gooshy, red, and
tart to the tongue. Better still, they make such good containers for sweet
chocolate drops and vials of perfume.
Every day—the doctor said absolutely every day—I drink a vial of
perfume so I know what to be for that day.
For instance, yesterday I was lumping around being verbal. Every
question someone looked would be answered in words. It was amusing
for one day. I wouldn't want to make a habit of it though, what a bore.
Tomorrow I will drink the vial labelled religious. I hate to think of
drinking it, it's such a vile vial, my tummy always hurts afterwards and
I burp a lot. It's almost all vinegar. Then I forget things I don't want
to remember, like what two and two is and everything we know about
in this world is a sublimation of our sex drives. It took me the longest
time to figure out why all the authorities on religion tried so hard to
make Mary into a virgin. It was for the same reason they were so miffed
when Jesus popped up out of the grave instead of staying dead like they
had planned on. (Wouldn't you be mad if you had arranged a nice little
tea party with dainty china cups and the guest of honor showed up
drunk?)
Today, lovely Alice and I (you met her in Wonderland, remember?)
strolled through Como Zoo chatting with the animals. They're so refresh-ingly
honest and candid, such an improvement over human beings, don't
you agree? Man has such audacity to propagate the false doctrine that
homo sapiens is farther along on the evolutionary chain.
I, being a huffalump, know that what you eat you are, so I don't
mess around with eating people, like some huffalumps I've heard about.
Of course, it's unfair to generalize about people as a group, but you know
as well as I that one rotten person spoils a culture.
Urp. Time for me to go home to my Huffaulmp Haven. If you prom-ise
not to bite my ears, tape my tongue, blind my eyes, or sic the pigs on
me, I'd say it's safe to drop in on you again soon. Bye.
Esther Burgess, with whom summer missionary Shelly
Danielson lived, prepares the family's meals on a wood stove.
'Shelly's corner' in the Burgess' "dobie" home.
Male Chorus' European tour is
friendliness, hospitality, hassel
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Tarahamara Indians' mud -brick church.
Don Burgess loads up his burro.
Friday, September 18, 1970 the CLARION page 3
Bethel summer student missionaries
learn to adapt to new environments
By Margie Anderson
Nineteen student missionaries
were sent from Bethel this sum-mer
to different parts of the world
including Venezuela, Austria, Can-ada,
Belgium, Utah, Switzerland
Alaska, Mexico and Minnesota.
Although the locations sound
glamorous, the trip was not a paid
vacation. Each of them worked
hard. All of the student mission-aries
had different experiences ac-cording
to the type of person they
are and the part of the world they
were stationed.
Linda Lovegren had the oppor-tunity
to go to Austria in order to
work for the "Greater Europe Mis-sion."
The main responsibilities of
this organization were passing out
Christian literature, Bibles, and
New Testaments. The mission also
had a church planting ministry
which involved youth meetings,
passing invitations to Bible studies,
and manual labor in preparation
for a tent campaign in the town of
Esinstadt. Linda participated in all
these activities. When asked about
the reaction of the people to this
type of witnessing, Linda replied,
"Some laughed at us, or were an-tagonistic
because we were Ameri-can,
but most were friendly and re-spected
our witness for Christ."
Because of this experience, Linda
feels she has developed a greater
desire to tell other people about
Jesus.
Pat Chase's summer in Brussels,
Belgium, began by working as a
counselor for a group of thirteen-year-
old French girls. After the
camp was over, Pat worked in an
evangelistic campaign. This involv-ed
doing door-to-door work, sing-ing,
and working with children. At
the end of her stay in Brussels,
Pat found herself working in a
Mission Bookstore. Pat said she
was glad to have the opportunity
to work for the Belgian people and
to learn from them.
Kodiak Island, Alaska, is the lo-cation
where Cindy Rostollan was
stationed. Her responsibilities were
varied. Basically she was there to
start the first year of camps at
Deer 'Beach. Cindy was a counsellor
and Bible teacher for two girls
camps. She also spent one week
hiking daily to a boys' camp and
doing the cooking for them. Later
in the summer, Cindy taught Bible
School in a small village called
Port Lions. All her students were
Russian Orthodox and therefore,
her teaching experience was more
complicated than first anticipated.
Not all of Cindy's duties pertain-ed
to teaching and counselling.
When she first arrived at Kodiak,
Cindy spent a couple of weeks
helping tear down a massive ware-house.
Cindy said she felt that her
relationship with Christ really be-came
alive this summer. Cindy is
planning on going back after her
graduation. Right now she is mak-ing
plans to spend the 1971 Inter-im
in Kodiak.
Shelley Danielson lived with Don
and Ester Burgess who are work-ing
under Wycliffe with the Tara-hamara
Indians in northern Mexi-co.
Most of Shelley's responsibil-ities
were household duties: cook-ing,
mopping, washing clothes,
mending, sewing on a treadle ma-chine.
taking care of two children,
carrying water and chasing chick-ens
out of the house. Every day
the Indians visited the Burgess
home. Shelley communicated with
a few of these men who knew
Spanish. Because of the limitation
of a language barrier, Shelley made
no attempts to talk to any Indians
about God. Shelley is now planning
on going in to missions and is se-riously
thinking of Mexico and the
Wycliffe 'board.
During June tenth through Au-gust
second. Barbara Lind was in
Sao Paulo, 'Brazil. Barb helped
some of our Conference missionar-ies
in the Instituto Theologico Bap-tista.
Her particular job was work-ing
on programmed textbooks.
This involved typing in English
and Portuguese, mimeographing
and putting the books together. "I
feel that by helping the missionar-ies
with secretarial work, I freed
them from the tasks so they could
do more in the area of direct con-tact
with the Brazilians. I found
the Brazilians have a very poor im-pression
of American young peo-ple
on the whole. They were al-ways
impressed by the fact that
Bethel has a Student Missionary
Program and that we are trying to
do something constructive with
what God has given us."
Nita Nelson was part of a nine
person team sent to northern Min-nesota
to teach Bible School to the
Indian people on their reservation.
In the first month Nita's team
members were Rachel Campbell,
Renee Viznor, Hugh McLeod, Jon
Lewis and myself. During the sec-ond
month Barb Johnson took my
place while Richard Evans and
Harley Hanson took the places of
Jon and Hugh. Nita's particular
job was to take care of Bible
School material, but she also had
the responsibility of teaching Bible
School to a group of Indian chil-dren.
Nita was fortunate enough
to learn some of their arts, such
as beading and basket weaving.
One important reward was receiv-ing
a letter from the mother of a
five-year-old girl thanking the
team for teaching Bible School. A
very important lesson which Nita
learned was that she could get out-side
herself by opening up to the
Indian people.
I was with the team when they
went to Ponsford, on the White
Earth Indian Reservation, and Red
Lake Indian Reservation. My job
was to provide craft projects for
the individual classes and to teach
a class of young girls.
I learned that a person has to
adapt to a new environment by
trying to understand and accept
the new people who live there.
This knowledge is very hard to put
into practice, at least for me. I also
discovered that what you are
speaks louder than what you say
you are. That is why it is so very
important to live what you believe.
Frankfurt, Germany, was the
first city to welcome the Bethel
Male Chorus this summer. The
arrival in Frankfurt on June 8
was the starting point for the
group's European tour.
From Frankfurt, the thirty-four
guys in the group with the dir-ector,
Dr. C. M. Smith and his
family, travelled via train to Swe-den.
The train ride was the most
difficult part of the journey, ac-cording
to Dr. Smith, for it lasted
26 hours, no water drinking fac-ilities
were available, and the
group was constantly being moved
around since the conductor wasn't
sure which train-car the group
was supposed to be on.
There was an accident along
the way, so the train was re-routed.
This meant the group
would be four hours late for their
first concert. Providentially, after
wiring the church to notify them
of their late arrival, the pastor of
the church told them there was a
local train the group could take
which got them there three and
one-half hours sooner than the
previous route.
After spending a week in Swe-den,
the chorus boated over to
Denmark where the chorus sang
in one of the same churches they
had four years previously. Four
days of sightseeing and singing
were spent in Norway. The group
flew from Norway to Edinborough,
Scotland.
One of the more exciting parts
of the tour was spending a week
in the greater London area. During
a traffic jam one London after-noon,
the group chatted with Pas-tor
Lawson and his wife, who
were lost in the traffic.
The chorus ferried across the
English channel to Holland and
then travelled on to Germany for
five concerts. One of the most
memorable parts of the tour, ac-cording
to Dr. Smith, was visiting
the border of East Germany to
view a house that was divided by
the border. Germany was the last
spot on the tour before the chorus
returned to the United States on
July 17.
The Male Chorus received great
friendliness and hospitality wher-ever
they went, according to Dr.
Smith. "This is the finest tour
I've ever been on," he stated,
"the spirit of the guys was great
and they were very co-operative."
Dr. Smith also stated that the
audience usually gave the best
reception to the Negro spirituals
the chorus sang. The chorus ran
out of records before the tour was
halfway through.
The high point of the tour for
one of the members of the chorus
was watching Mrs. Smith chase
Dr. Smith chasing a train.
During chapel service on Sep-tember
29, the members of the
Male Chorus will present slides
and stories from the tour.
Spire staff member checks off the names as students re-ceive
their yearbook.
Spire staff unveils their creation,
students react to new concept
By Dave Greener
In the Clarion last winter, year-book
editor Marty Mauk discussed
innovations for Bethel's 1970 Spire.
Projected ideas for the annual in-cluded
a chronological approach, a
general theme (in this case "stu-dent
life"), special senior pictures,
and candid photographs, some with
special effects. Now the Spires are
here and are open to evaluation.
What are some student reactions
to them?
"I like them a lot," says one
junior boy. "The old concept was
too obsessed with filling pages with
everybody's picture. I don't think
that is the spirit of the year at all."
This year's Spire, he says, is a
"very artistic approach at trying to
catch the spirit of the year."
Other of the approximately thir-ty
or so students who expressed
solicited opinions might agree with
at least part of this belief. Overall,
it was "very good and I really lik-ed
it," relates one sophomore girl;
a junior boy found it "loose," "not
so common," and "less structured."
One common opinion was an ad-miration
for the section of senior
pictures. (These were photos of
whatever pose, clothes, and setting
seniors wanted.) Some of the
book's candid shots were liked also.
A couple of people thought well
of the Spire's allusion to world
problems. "I like the attempt at
reflecting topical issues students
are concerned with," phrased one
junior girl.
One senior of last year thought
it was the best Spire he had seen.
But while some might see the '70
yearbook as an improvement, oth-ers
either don't or at least include
negative comments in their criti-cism.
Friday, September 18, 1970
One of the most prevalent criti-cisms
was that the Spire didn't in-clude
pictures of all of Bethel's
students. As one sophomore girl
suggested, there could have been
more pictures of "kids we knew".
It didn't represent the student
body, thought one male senior.
Non-Bethel content was criti-cized
by one or two people. ("I
haven't seen that old man or 'Viet-nam'
at Bethel.") "Wasted space"
was also an indictment of the pub-lication.
Besides the calls for greater in-dividual
representation, it was felt
by some that various groups, or in
some cases events, were slighted
or were given inept material.
Sports, music, clubs, and (in one
case) faculty were some areas
where coverage was said to be
weak. Furthermore, some of the
materials used in these areas were
questioned, such as the use of old
pictures in some sports, the lack
of names in activities and lack of
full group shots.
The innovative photography in
the yearbook was sometimes criti-cized
and sometimes praised. One
senior boy saw an overuse of some
of the special effects photos and
one sophomore girl found a lack
of clearness in some of the nega-tives.
One senior girl mentioned
she liked the "fuzzed" shots and
the candid shots.
Editor Mauk relates there wasn't
enough photographers on last
year's staff but that the staff was
adequate in all other areas. He also
suggested money as a factor in hav-ing
or not having a more complete
yearbook. Next year the Spire staff
will produce another innovative
yearbook. The form as well as the
content will differ from previous
years.
Not all of the new faces last
week at Bethel belonged to fresh-men
and transfers. On campus
there was also a former third base-man
(once with the Pittsburgh Pi-rates
farm system), a model air-plane
enthusiast, and a man who
had former seventh grade students
greeting him as new Bethel collegi-ates.
These new faces belong to some
of Bethel's new teachers. The ten
men and women hired this fall are
the replacements for departing
teachers or are part of program
expansions.
The former second-third base-man
is Dr. Vern Lewis, whose cre-dentials
also include a Ph.D. from
Claimont Graduate School. He has
led student European tours to lo-cations
of significance such as
Freud's house in Vienna. He
will work in Bethel's Chris-tianity
and Psychology departments
and is to serve as a half-time coun-selor
for Bethel's students. Lewis
is "very happy about being at Beth-el"
and is "very impressed with
the students and faculty."
The model airplane builder and
flyer (he was also a flight instruc-tor
with the real things) is Mr.
David Perry. Perry, a Bethel grad-uate,
became a father last June 29.
She (speaking of his small daugh-ter)
"takes a lot of my time now,"
he relates. Perry is scheduled to
serve as a one-year replacement in
the Mathematics Department.
The former junior high teacher
is Mr. Dwaine Lind who comes
from Edgewood Junior High in
Mounds View, Minnesota, to be an
Assistant Professor of Education at
Bethel.
Education is also the field of
Mrs. Ruth Ludeman, whose hus-band
is an elementary school prin-cipal.
Mrs. Ludeman has taught
both at elementary schools and col-leges.
Her associate professorship
will be used primarily in working
with Bethel's elementary teaching
hopefuls.
Mr. Charles Reynolds is to be an
Assistant Professor of Physical Ed-
By Cindy Rostollan
Once upon a time, I spent the
summer in Kodiak, Alaska, and got
a letter from Mother. The letter
contained my student housing for
next year. I opened the letter.
frowned and shook my head. "Were
Mom and Dad going on a vaca-tion?"
Nope, by some mysterious
mistake, the brochure was a de-tailed
report of my apartment for
the coming year.
Living in Centennial Gardens is
an experience I wish all the Bethel
students could have, but alas,
there wouldn't be enough room in
the pool and sauna. So only 40 or
so were chosen to live here. The
apartments all have two bedrooms,
a nice sized living-room, a bath,
and a kitchen equipped with a gar-bage
disposal and a dishwasher.
The apartments are completely
carpeted.
Sometimes one could say that it
really isn't too convenient to live
here, for we're a long way from
Dr. Vern Lewis
Psychology department,
counselor
Ruth Lundeman
Education department
ucation. ,Bethelites probably will
know him best as the Royals' new
head football coach.
Assisting Professor Reynolds in
football and teaching Physical Ed-ucation
is Mr. David Klostreich.
Sensing the challenge (as he re-lates)
of helping re-invigorate Beth-el's
athletic program, Klostreich
will also be head coach in his own
right — he'll guide the wrestling
team.
Mr. Ralph Joly is a new staff
member in the English Depart-ment.
He is a Ph.D. candidate at
the University of North Carolina.
A man with experience as an art
campus, and the transportation
isn't the best. Yet I believe that
there is much here to off-balance
the transportation problem. Num-ber
one is it is terrific to come
home to a nice, quiet apartment,
drop your books and get ready for
a swim. The number two comes
once you're in the pool and sauna.
Because we're not in Bethel hous-ing,
there are any number of peo-ple
to meet all around us, and most
of those we've met (my room-mates
and I) have been in either the pool
or sauna. Number three is, once
you're back in your apartment,
there is an undisturbed place to
study or sleep (depending how ac-tive
you feel after a swim).
How the "little extras" we have
in Centennial Gardens will affect
our study habits and grades, re-mains
to be seen. The semester is
new and perhaps by the end of it,
we'll all be scholars or candidates
for yet another year at Bethel.
It'll be interesting to see how the
year progresses.
Dale Johnson
Art department
Ralph Joly
English department
designer and director is a new in-structor
in Bethel's art department.
Mr. Dale Johnson is the new facul-ty
member (and is also an art di-rector
for Allied Development
Inc.).
Mrs. Joan Olson comes to Bethel
as a Special Instructor in Sociol-ogy.
Her M.A. is from Michigan
State University and her husband
attends Bethel's seminary.
Miss Carol Morgan is not really
a "new face" in Bethel's teaching
ranks. She returns to her Physical
Education instructorship after a
year's leave and receiving her mas-ter's
degree from the University of
Northern Colorado.
Have a Gripe?
Letters to the editor
are welcome
letters must be in by
Monday of each week
type written, no more
than two double-spaced
pages
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as replacements, expansions
By Dave Greener
Bethel's overflow lolls
in luxurious apartments
at Centennial Gardens
Royal players scrimmage for season's first game.
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By Bill Ankerberg
Last Saturday was a cold day at
Hamline Stadium as the Bethel
Royals faced the Pipers of Ham-line.
As far as the offensive thrust
of Bethel was concerned, the game
was uneventful, with the Royals
loisng 53-0.
It was nice to have a team this
year that didn't have to play both
ways, and granted that our Royals
were outclassed by Hamline, but
we should have done better than
we did. With a squad of mainly
freshmen this year, however, you
have to wait a while at the start
of any season for the team to jell.
It would be a lot more encouraging
to have a touchdown to report on,
but there were not any.
Aside from some isolated fine of-fensive
plays and a few bright
spots on defense, the game was
discouraging. Freshman Dave Asp
played perhaps the most commend-able
game on defense and should
continue to be a standout. "Putting
those things which are past be-hind,"
Bethel faces Sioux Falls
this Saturday. The prospects are
good for the season average if
things jell in time.
Schedule for Sept. 19
Off Campus II vs. Faculty 9:00
Second Old vs. New Dorm 9:00
Off Campus I vs. Pit 10:00
Third Old vs. Second New 10:00
First Floor vs. Third New 10:00
Results of Sept. 12 Games
Off Campus I 26, 3rd Old 0
3rd New 1, Off Campus 0 (OT)
New Dorm 1, Faculty 0
1st Floor 13, Pit 0
2nd New 8, 2nd Old 6
Opening soccer
game tomorrow
By Ray Smith
Once again the Soccer Club is
alive and well and practicing at
Como Park. The team has had a
bigger turnout than ever before
and is looking forward to its best
season yet. Most of last year's team
has returned and combined with
this year's frosh and the magical
touch of Coach Justin Abraham,
skill and spirit are reaching all
time highs. The first match will be
played Saturday, September 19, at
Concordia College in St. Paul. The
players are looking forward to a
tough contest and encourage your
support for this game which begins
at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, September 18, 1970
The Hot Corner will exist as an
all-purpose column with primary
emphasis on sports. Letters to the
editor are welcome and just may
be printed.
I was glad to see the huge Bethel
crowd at Hamline last Saturday.
The Royals are going to play win-ning
football this year, take my
word for it. Get out and see as
many games as you can—this team
deserves your support.
They say a certain golf nut is
wondering if it isn't time for him
to tell his youngsters about the
birdies and the bogies.
Honestly, any Miss America who
drops her crown . . .
The pennant race in the N.L.
East is hotter than—well, you
know .. .
* *
The Vikings used a drop of their
supply of magic in edging the
Bears 31-30 last week on a last
second play. They'll wish they had-n't
before the year is over. There
is a limit to the number of times
a team can pull out a game like
that. If Dick Butkus had been play-ing
the Vikes would have been
trampled.
For three (or four or five) years
the Chicago Bear offense has been
"101 ways to use Gale Sayers."
They threw screen passes to their
other backers successfully against
the Vikings. Glad to see it. In the
past the Bear offense has had about
as much imagination as tile Bethel
chef.
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Bill Rigney—quiet and ineffici-ent.
He's never won a pennant.
But this year, he's managing the
best of the worst. The teams in the
A. L. West have about as much
punch as a three-day-old glass of
root beer.
Cincinnati—what power! Their
lineup is so potent that they dealt
off Leo Cardenas, who in two years
has become the sixth best short-stop
in the American League.
Bill Rigney may be a goose when
it comes to jerking pitchers, but
he'll never top the one Preston
Gomez of the San Diego Padres
pulled this summer. Gomez remov-ed
Clay Kirby (who had a no-hitter
going) for a pinch hitter in the
bottom of the eighth inning. San
Diego went on to lose the game on
a home run in the innth. Preston's
excuse to reporters after being
lustily booed by San Diego fans—
"I play to win." The Padres were
29 1/2 games out of first at the time.
Ed Lopat, the former whatever-he-
was, made this comment when
he first saw Tony Oliva, "The kid
will never make it in the big
leagues."
Remember last winter when Joe
Kapp was a super hero and could
do nothing wrong? The Viking glo-ry
boy has been quickly forgotten.
It just proves that Minnesota fans
are as fickle as they come.
* *
Royal Star of the Week is David
Asp, freshman defensive back
from Rush City, Minnesota. Dave
intercepted a pass and made sever-al
fine tackles as a standout in last
week's loss to Hamline.
Shutouts dominated intramural
games last weekend as the teams
struggled to get their offenses or-ganized.
Second Old was the only
team to score in a losing cause,
falling to Second New 8-6.
Kevin Bishop scored a touchdown
and intercepted two passes, but a
TD by Dan Brodin and a safety
gave Second New the victory.
Scores by Reggy Henley and
Steve Ear11 and an extra point by
Rich Salzbrenner led First Floor
to a 13-0 win over the Pit.
Touchdowns by Dan Mogck,
Steve Carlson, Paul Zosel, and Mike
Barnes led off Campus I to a 26-0
blanking of Third Old. Jim Delich
and Paul Zosel added extra points.
New Dorm completed only two
passes during their game, but it
gave them the yardage needed to
edge Faculty 1-0. Third New went
into overtime before gaining a 1-0
win over Off Campus II. Gary Rus-sel
connected on a pair of passes to
Gary Clark for Third New's vic-tory.
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Back together once more, the Jug Band presents its first 'concert' tonight at Moods '70.
Spiritual Emphasis Week coming;
don't develop artificial experiences
Robert Brunko
Ronald A. Cline
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Vol. XLVI—No. 1 Bethe l Col lege, St. Paul, Min nesota
By Wendell Wahlin
September 21-25 — another week
of drudgery and despair in the
books? Five days of agonizing, ev-eryday
school life? Far be the case,
for Monday, September 21, dawns
as the first of five stimulating, re-freshing,
enlightening and chal-lenging
days making up the annual
Spiritual Emphasis Week.
Through the guidance and in-sight
of our Campus Pastor, Mau-rice
Lawson, a week of stimulating
thought and activity is being plan-ned
for the entire Bethel commun-ity.
The week, which had been ob-served
annually for many years, is
designed to bring new faces, ideas
and challenges to students and fac-ulty
alike.
This special week, early in each
fall semester, has in past years wit-
E. G. Von Trutzschler
nessed evangelists, Bible teachers
and gifted lecturers share and
teach within our college commun-ity.
Returning students will re-member,
however, the innovative
team-style approach which brought
four laymen to a week-long 'live-in'
within our community one year
ago. Speaking daily in Chapel,
holding bull sessions in the dorms,
rolling up their sleeves in the Cof-fee
Shop, these men became part
of us for one week, listening to our
problems and our triumphs and
just sharing what insights God had
given them.
This year, Spiritual Emphasis
Week promises to be no let down.
The team participating in the
week-long activities has been ex-panded
to seven, including two la-dies,
and hails with national and
international flavor. The partici-pants
are: Ron Cline, Dean of Stu-dents,
Azusa Pacific College, Cali-fornia;
E. G. von Trustzschler,
Youth Director, San Diego, minis-tering
to hundreds of youth every
week, including those on drugs;
Jim Schulz, college age youth from
San Diego. One of Von's converts;
Paul Edwards, missionary from In-dia,
former teacher at Bethel; Rob-ert
Brunko, Conference pastor,
Chicago, pastoring a racially integ-rated
congregation in south-side
Chicago; Charlotte Ransom, former
C.E. director at Bethlehem Bap-tist,
Minneapolis, studying for
teaching credentials at St. Cloud
State; Carol Flumbaum, director of
social services and the girls' dorm
counsellor at Union Gospel Mis-sion,
St. Paul.
Dean Virgil Olson, looking at the
proposed events and guests of Spir-itual
Emphasis Week, said, "This
week should help us better under-stand
ourselves and the dynamics
of our spiritual community."
He went on to warn of danger.
"These types of weeks can be
mechanically manipulated to pro-duce
Christian experience." He ex-plained,
"We must be careful of
phonyness; we don't want to devel-op
artificial experiences!"
He went on to say, "What is
genuine is long term and constant.
This week will be a confrontation
with people and ideas. Maybe we
can catch some new insights."
Spiritual Emphasis Week is a
stimulant to our campus, an integ-ration
of the spiritual and educa-tional.
This week is designed as an
attempt to help develop the whole
man. Why don't you come along
and get involved?
by Dave Healy
Bethel should undertake a move
to the new campus by the fall of
1972. This was the major opinion
to come out of the annual combin-ed
faculty retreat, held this year
on September 1 and 2 at Camp
Courage.
The faculty's recommendation in-volves
"a single move to the new
campus by the fall of 1972 by the:
a.) sale of the present campus as
soon as possible; b.) providing for
basic space needs-100,000 sq. ft.
of the present plant; c.) building of
dorms with multiple use potential;
d.) provision of minimal facilities
for physical education and auditor-ium."
Additional construction to com-plete
the original building plan
would be accompiished as funds
became available.
The question of whether to stay
or move was the result of a group
dynamics session at the retreat.
The relocation issue eventually
emerged as the foremost concern
of the college and seminary facul-ty,
administration. and staff per-sonnel
present. The general feel-ing
of this group was and is that
the school's best interests would
By Joey Healy
What's the most exciting thing
ever? What's fantastic and terrifc
and fabulous? What's the absolute
greatest? You guessed it! Moods
'70!
The entertainment begins at 8:00
o'clock this evening in our very
own fieldhouse, which will be
transformed for the occasion. You
will be seated at round tables, with
candle-lighting to help set the
mood.
Admission charge will be 75
cents per person, or $1.25 per cou-ple.
Refreshments will be served
free of charge.
Included in the program will be
a comedy on the rings, a classical
kazoo number, serious and humor-ous
music, a Reader's Theatre, and
the Spit Band. This will be the
Spit Band's first public perfor-mance
since they recorded various
numbers for their first record al-bum.
"For those of you who have not
yet heard our Spit Band, this will
be a new and bland experience;
and, of course, if you have already
heard the Spit Band perform, you
will want to be there for sure."
says Bo Conrad, a Spit Band mem-ber.
"We are just a group of well-mannered,
typical, average, radical,
rugged individuals held together
only by our love of S & B music
(which is most closely related to
the jug band mode).
"This past summer we were
scattered over the face of the Un-ited
States—for 90 days and 90
nights we kept our (individual)
fingers nimble by playing sweet
melodies with low-down tones--
but on Friday night we will all be
playing together again. We don't
know yet what we will be playing,
but we and all the Mood's perform-ers
will be doing our best to give
our audience a joyous time. P. S.
Dean L. has promised to dance."
Jan Christenson, chairwoman of
Moods '70, says. "Since Moods is
the first big affair on campus this
year (and every year), we do hope
to start the year off right with a
fine performance."
The overall approach of Moods
'70 will be similar tc rlr, ivas
Moods, with little or no filler Pri-mary
emphasis will be on enter-tainment.
So come and be enter-tained.
be served if Bethel were to move
now and move completely.
The recommendation to relocate
by 1972 will now be presented to
the Board of Regents, who must
make the final decision. Dean Ol-son
has this to say about the situa-tion:
"Our decision reflects a de-sire
on the part of the faculty to
get out to the new campus as soon
as possible. The Board of Regents
is now responsible to study the is-sue."
The Dean also expressed hope
that the Board would make a clear-cut
decision either to go now or
wait for five years and then go.
Such a decision, he feels, would
eliminate the succession of date
postponements that have plagued
us until now.
The combined faculty also rec-ommended
that the following "con-tingency
plans" be observed until
the 1972 move: "a.) longer teaching
day—extended class schedule; b.)
college use of available seminary
facilities; c.) adjustment of space
at minimal cost to provide more so-cial
areas for students; d.) increas-ed
cooperation with other colleges;
e.) more coordination between en-rollment
and other student/teacher
ratio."
Facultydecide campus must move
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Focus on institutions
What is community?
By Pat Faxon
I was quite surprised, upon re-turning
to Bethel this fall, to find
both the Dean and the President
talking about 'community'.
While attending the university
this summer, I was enrolled in a
course called 'The Politics of Eth-nic
Communities'. Perhaps because
politics is such an integrated part
of the American way of life, the
course turned out to be quite an
in-depth study of ethnic groups
and communities themselves—their
development, their problems, their
relation to society at large.
We, as a class, began to under-stand
the realization that if our
present urban crises are to be
solved, there must be some really
serious examination of the essen-tial
components of community life,
and some serious study and plan-ning
of how these components may
be rearranged on the community
level to give community members
a greater satisfaction and the op-portunity
to participate in the af-fairs
that affect their own lives.
It became evident to us that our
present systems of government are
highly inadequate in meeting the
problems we face today. The orig-inal
idea behind the systems is
great, but the idea has long been
lost in the maze of 'pork barrel'
additions along the way from a ru-ral
society to an urban one. We,
as a nation have changed; our
needs have changed, our way of
life has changed. And yet we are
still attempting to stretch the old
needs and methods of meeting
them over this rapidly expanding,
throbbing mass of life. We need a
new way of applying that original
good idea. Because the old one
doesn't work any more—even for
those of us who think it does. If
you doubt, think of our unsolved
poverty, racial and ecological prob-lems
to say nothing of education
and economy.
About this time it began to seem
to me as though we are at a very
important cross-road in our life as
a nation and society. Perhaps 'cross
road' does not adequately express
our position. Perhaps a better way
of expressing it would be to say
that we're at the end of the road,
and we must decide which direc-tion
we're going to build—whether
it be in the direction of subsequent
addition after addition in a patch-work
style of patching the patches,
sewing new pieces into the worn
out old original piece; or whether
to begin building something new
from the old pattern or style, but
which fits better, letting the an-tiquated
gradually disintegrate
from lack of use.
I began to realize that there's
more, or there should be more to
life in a society than coexistence.
`Community life' came more natur-ally
to the rural situation, but the
characteristics of the urban situa-tion
tend to pressure a sense of
community out of existence. The
components of a society should not
be constructed in such a manner
so that structures and members of
that society antagonize one anoth-er.
We need to reconstruct our
daily habits and our thinking to
develop a greater sense of com-munity.
A community is a unit whose ac-tivities
are complementary and co-operative
with other communities
and among its component members,
each participating and being used
to the capacity of his potential.
A community which uses not just
physical or mental capacity but his
entire potential as a human being
is going to be much stronger and
more satisfying one. It's one that
puts demands upon a person's per-sonal
and spiritual (not to be con-fused
with religious potential as
well. It demands of each individ-ual
that he be himself and reveal
himself, but that in doing so that
he give in when it's time to give
in, and stand out when it's time
to stand out. Here, however, a very
important distinction must be
made. There is a difference be-tween
'giving in' and stifling. One
involves force and the other does
not. When a person's potential, be
it physical, mental, personal or
spiritual, is stifled, the whole com-munity
is weakened.
A community can be a growing
fulfilling experience, or it can be
a cold war endurance test among
acquaintances. Members of the
Bethel Community, it's up to you.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
Copy Editor Marge Rusche
Sports Editor Rich Zaderaka
Reporters Dave Healy
Wendell Whalin
Joey Healy
Bill Ankerberg
Cindy Rostollan
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do Dave Greener
not necessarily reflect the position of Marge Anderson
the college or seminary. Photographer Jim Ammelsberg
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Listen to each other;
don't put God in box
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By Marjorie Rusche
Dial 332-3939 for instant heaven. A sweet soothing voice imparts
some wisdom to you from the Holy Scriptures, then expounds on it. The
message is a recording.
We, as young Christians, are forced by the context of our times to
fight sterile, death-centered Christianity. This Christianity, where Jesus
is portrayed as a sexless super-WASP that "sinners" project their guilt
on, calls all men "brother" if they're from the same socio-economic-cul-
. tural background and conform to the value system they believe in. This
Christianity is entrenched in the established order that puts down hu-manness
and creativity and glorifies materialism, efficiency, consistency,
technology, structure, and "going through the Proper Channels."
We are through with the old structures. The pre-packaged message
communicated via machine (the telephone) is a fitting symbol for a par-tial
explanation. The church does not listen. Machinelike, it reiterates its
spiritual laws and doctrines after receiving stimulus, and does so at a
safe protective distance.
Young Christians, we must never lose the newness and freshness
that comes from Jesus and God through the Holy Spirit. We must not
let ourselves be regulated into spiritual molds. We must never be afraid
to risk and fail, risk and fail, risk and fail again and again. Spiritual
growth involves spiritual risk and experimentation.
Only you can decide what is good and true for you. The Holy Spirit
will help you out. You know how the Spirit is working by how you feel
(your experience) and if you perceive any of the fruits of the Spirit—
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, tolerance—in your-self.
Don't accept anything only on the basis of authority.
Institutional Christianity put God in a box (which really is the un-pardonable
sin, to limit God and say he acts in such and such a way;
(which automatically blocks out the spontaneity of the Spirit) when they
conceptualized Him as a fixed absolute that is the same yesterday, today
and tomorrow. God's unbounded love, mercy, and justice are constant,
but the way which He reveals Himself to the individual varies with the
individual, the culture, and the time in history.
Having a community of people who are one in the Spirit is a beau-tiful
idea. Those of you who want to live what people feel good talking
about and aren't afraid of having people think you're blooming idiots
or high on dope, do your thing and spread the Spirit. Those of you who
are concerned about having a nice, pleasant, safe, "theologically sound"
Christianity better watch out because the Holy Spirit is all-pervasive.
It just might strike you next!
My brothers and sisters, don't let the powers-that-be put you down.
Ask the Holy Spirit and other people to help you if you're down, and
give out the fruits of the Spirit to people when you're up.
Interesting things may happen.
Huffalump's Fables
By Huffalump
Hello, I am Huffalump. I can be recognized (only on windy days) by
my huff and lump.
Raspberries are my favorite food, for they are juicy, gooshy, red, and
tart to the tongue. Better still, they make such good containers for sweet
chocolate drops and vials of perfume.
Every day—the doctor said absolutely every day—I drink a vial of
perfume so I know what to be for that day.
For instance, yesterday I was lumping around being verbal. Every
question someone looked would be answered in words. It was amusing
for one day. I wouldn't want to make a habit of it though, what a bore.
Tomorrow I will drink the vial labelled religious. I hate to think of
drinking it, it's such a vile vial, my tummy always hurts afterwards and
I burp a lot. It's almost all vinegar. Then I forget things I don't want
to remember, like what two and two is and everything we know about
in this world is a sublimation of our sex drives. It took me the longest
time to figure out why all the authorities on religion tried so hard to
make Mary into a virgin. It was for the same reason they were so miffed
when Jesus popped up out of the grave instead of staying dead like they
had planned on. (Wouldn't you be mad if you had arranged a nice little
tea party with dainty china cups and the guest of honor showed up
drunk?)
Today, lovely Alice and I (you met her in Wonderland, remember?)
strolled through Como Zoo chatting with the animals. They're so refresh-ingly
honest and candid, such an improvement over human beings, don't
you agree? Man has such audacity to propagate the false doctrine that
homo sapiens is farther along on the evolutionary chain.
I, being a huffalump, know that what you eat you are, so I don't
mess around with eating people, like some huffalumps I've heard about.
Of course, it's unfair to generalize about people as a group, but you know
as well as I that one rotten person spoils a culture.
Urp. Time for me to go home to my Huffaulmp Haven. If you prom-ise
not to bite my ears, tape my tongue, blind my eyes, or sic the pigs on
me, I'd say it's safe to drop in on you again soon. Bye.
Esther Burgess, with whom summer missionary Shelly
Danielson lived, prepares the family's meals on a wood stove.
'Shelly's corner' in the Burgess' "dobie" home.
Male Chorus' European tour is
friendliness, hospitality, hassel
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Tarahamara Indians' mud -brick church.
Don Burgess loads up his burro.
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Bethel summer student missionaries
learn to adapt to new environments
By Margie Anderson
Nineteen student missionaries
were sent from Bethel this sum-mer
to different parts of the world
including Venezuela, Austria, Can-ada,
Belgium, Utah, Switzerland
Alaska, Mexico and Minnesota.
Although the locations sound
glamorous, the trip was not a paid
vacation. Each of them worked
hard. All of the student mission-aries
had different experiences ac-cording
to the type of person they
are and the part of the world they
were stationed.
Linda Lovegren had the oppor-tunity
to go to Austria in order to
work for the "Greater Europe Mis-sion."
The main responsibilities of
this organization were passing out
Christian literature, Bibles, and
New Testaments. The mission also
had a church planting ministry
which involved youth meetings,
passing invitations to Bible studies,
and manual labor in preparation
for a tent campaign in the town of
Esinstadt. Linda participated in all
these activities. When asked about
the reaction of the people to this
type of witnessing, Linda replied,
"Some laughed at us, or were an-tagonistic
because we were Ameri-can,
but most were friendly and re-spected
our witness for Christ."
Because of this experience, Linda
feels she has developed a greater
desire to tell other people about
Jesus.
Pat Chase's summer in Brussels,
Belgium, began by working as a
counselor for a group of thirteen-year-
old French girls. After the
camp was over, Pat worked in an
evangelistic campaign. This involv-ed
doing door-to-door work, sing-ing,
and working with children. At
the end of her stay in Brussels,
Pat found herself working in a
Mission Bookstore. Pat said she
was glad to have the opportunity
to work for the Belgian people and
to learn from them.
Kodiak Island, Alaska, is the lo-cation
where Cindy Rostollan was
stationed. Her responsibilities were
varied. Basically she was there to
start the first year of camps at
Deer 'Beach. Cindy was a counsellor
and Bible teacher for two girls
camps. She also spent one week
hiking daily to a boys' camp and
doing the cooking for them. Later
in the summer, Cindy taught Bible
School in a small village called
Port Lions. All her students were
Russian Orthodox and therefore,
her teaching experience was more
complicated than first anticipated.
Not all of Cindy's duties pertain-ed
to teaching and counselling.
When she first arrived at Kodiak,
Cindy spent a couple of weeks
helping tear down a massive ware-house.
Cindy said she felt that her
relationship with Christ really be-came
alive this summer. Cindy is
planning on going back after her
graduation. Right now she is mak-ing
plans to spend the 1971 Inter-im
in Kodiak.
Shelley Danielson lived with Don
and Ester Burgess who are work-ing
under Wycliffe with the Tara-hamara
Indians in northern Mexi-co.
Most of Shelley's responsibil-ities
were household duties: cook-ing,
mopping, washing clothes,
mending, sewing on a treadle ma-chine.
taking care of two children,
carrying water and chasing chick-ens
out of the house. Every day
the Indians visited the Burgess
home. Shelley communicated with
a few of these men who knew
Spanish. Because of the limitation
of a language barrier, Shelley made
no attempts to talk to any Indians
about God. Shelley is now planning
on going in to missions and is se-riously
thinking of Mexico and the
Wycliffe 'board.
During June tenth through Au-gust
second. Barbara Lind was in
Sao Paulo, 'Brazil. Barb helped
some of our Conference missionar-ies
in the Instituto Theologico Bap-tista.
Her particular job was work-ing
on programmed textbooks.
This involved typing in English
and Portuguese, mimeographing
and putting the books together. "I
feel that by helping the missionar-ies
with secretarial work, I freed
them from the tasks so they could
do more in the area of direct con-tact
with the Brazilians. I found
the Brazilians have a very poor im-pression
of American young peo-ple
on the whole. They were al-ways
impressed by the fact that
Bethel has a Student Missionary
Program and that we are trying to
do something constructive with
what God has given us."
Nita Nelson was part of a nine
person team sent to northern Min-nesota
to teach Bible School to the
Indian people on their reservation.
In the first month Nita's team
members were Rachel Campbell,
Renee Viznor, Hugh McLeod, Jon
Lewis and myself. During the sec-ond
month Barb Johnson took my
place while Richard Evans and
Harley Hanson took the places of
Jon and Hugh. Nita's particular
job was to take care of Bible
School material, but she also had
the responsibility of teaching Bible
School to a group of Indian chil-dren.
Nita was fortunate enough
to learn some of their arts, such
as beading and basket weaving.
One important reward was receiv-ing
a letter from the mother of a
five-year-old girl thanking the
team for teaching Bible School. A
very important lesson which Nita
learned was that she could get out-side
herself by opening up to the
Indian people.
I was with the team when they
went to Ponsford, on the White
Earth Indian Reservation, and Red
Lake Indian Reservation. My job
was to provide craft projects for
the individual classes and to teach
a class of young girls.
I learned that a person has to
adapt to a new environment by
trying to understand and accept
the new people who live there.
This knowledge is very hard to put
into practice, at least for me. I also
discovered that what you are
speaks louder than what you say
you are. That is why it is so very
important to live what you believe.
Frankfurt, Germany, was the
first city to welcome the Bethel
Male Chorus this summer. The
arrival in Frankfurt on June 8
was the starting point for the
group's European tour.
From Frankfurt, the thirty-four
guys in the group with the dir-ector,
Dr. C. M. Smith and his
family, travelled via train to Swe-den.
The train ride was the most
difficult part of the journey, ac-cording
to Dr. Smith, for it lasted
26 hours, no water drinking fac-ilities
were available, and the
group was constantly being moved
around since the conductor wasn't
sure which train-car the group
was supposed to be on.
There was an accident along
the way, so the train was re-routed.
This meant the group
would be four hours late for their
first concert. Providentially, after
wiring the church to notify them
of their late arrival, the pastor of
the church told them there was a
local train the group could take
which got them there three and
one-half hours sooner than the
previous route.
After spending a week in Swe-den,
the chorus boated over to
Denmark where the chorus sang
in one of the same churches they
had four years previously. Four
days of sightseeing and singing
were spent in Norway. The group
flew from Norway to Edinborough,
Scotland.
One of the more exciting parts
of the tour was spending a week
in the greater London area. During
a traffic jam one London after-noon,
the group chatted with Pas-tor
Lawson and his wife, who
were lost in the traffic.
The chorus ferried across the
English channel to Holland and
then travelled on to Germany for
five concerts. One of the most
memorable parts of the tour, ac-cording
to Dr. Smith, was visiting
the border of East Germany to
view a house that was divided by
the border. Germany was the last
spot on the tour before the chorus
returned to the United States on
July 17.
The Male Chorus received great
friendliness and hospitality wher-ever
they went, according to Dr.
Smith. "This is the finest tour
I've ever been on," he stated,
"the spirit of the guys was great
and they were very co-operative."
Dr. Smith also stated that the
audience usually gave the best
reception to the Negro spirituals
the chorus sang. The chorus ran
out of records before the tour was
halfway through.
The high point of the tour for
one of the members of the chorus
was watching Mrs. Smith chase
Dr. Smith chasing a train.
During chapel service on Sep-tember
29, the members of the
Male Chorus will present slides
and stories from the tour.
Spire staff member checks off the names as students re-ceive
their yearbook.
Spire staff unveils their creation,
students react to new concept
By Dave Greener
In the Clarion last winter, year-book
editor Marty Mauk discussed
innovations for Bethel's 1970 Spire.
Projected ideas for the annual in-cluded
a chronological approach, a
general theme (in this case "stu-dent
life"), special senior pictures,
and candid photographs, some with
special effects. Now the Spires are
here and are open to evaluation.
What are some student reactions
to them?
"I like them a lot," says one
junior boy. "The old concept was
too obsessed with filling pages with
everybody's picture. I don't think
that is the spirit of the year at all."
This year's Spire, he says, is a
"very artistic approach at trying to
catch the spirit of the year."
Other of the approximately thir-ty
or so students who expressed
solicited opinions might agree with
at least part of this belief. Overall,
it was "very good and I really lik-ed
it," relates one sophomore girl;
a junior boy found it "loose," "not
so common," and "less structured."
One common opinion was an ad-miration
for the section of senior
pictures. (These were photos of
whatever pose, clothes, and setting
seniors wanted.) Some of the
book's candid shots were liked also.
A couple of people thought well
of the Spire's allusion to world
problems. "I like the attempt at
reflecting topical issues students
are concerned with," phrased one
junior girl.
One senior of last year thought
it was the best Spire he had seen.
But while some might see the '70
yearbook as an improvement, oth-ers
either don't or at least include
negative comments in their criti-cism.
Friday, September 18, 1970
One of the most prevalent criti-cisms
was that the Spire didn't in-clude
pictures of all of Bethel's
students. As one sophomore girl
suggested, there could have been
more pictures of "kids we knew".
It didn't represent the student
body, thought one male senior.
Non-Bethel content was criti-cized
by one or two people. ("I
haven't seen that old man or 'Viet-nam'
at Bethel.") "Wasted space"
was also an indictment of the pub-lication.
Besides the calls for greater in-dividual
representation, it was felt
by some that various groups, or in
some cases events, were slighted
or were given inept material.
Sports, music, clubs, and (in one
case) faculty were some areas
where coverage was said to be
weak. Furthermore, some of the
materials used in these areas were
questioned, such as the use of old
pictures in some sports, the lack
of names in activities and lack of
full group shots.
The innovative photography in
the yearbook was sometimes criti-cized
and sometimes praised. One
senior boy saw an overuse of some
of the special effects photos and
one sophomore girl found a lack
of clearness in some of the nega-tives.
One senior girl mentioned
she liked the "fuzzed" shots and
the candid shots.
Editor Mauk relates there wasn't
enough photographers on last
year's staff but that the staff was
adequate in all other areas. He also
suggested money as a factor in hav-ing
or not having a more complete
yearbook. Next year the Spire staff
will produce another innovative
yearbook. The form as well as the
content will differ from previous
years.
Not all of the new faces last
week at Bethel belonged to fresh-men
and transfers. On campus
there was also a former third base-man
(once with the Pittsburgh Pi-rates
farm system), a model air-plane
enthusiast, and a man who
had former seventh grade students
greeting him as new Bethel collegi-ates.
These new faces belong to some
of Bethel's new teachers. The ten
men and women hired this fall are
the replacements for departing
teachers or are part of program
expansions.
The former second-third base-man
is Dr. Vern Lewis, whose cre-dentials
also include a Ph.D. from
Claimont Graduate School. He has
led student European tours to lo-cations
of significance such as
Freud's house in Vienna. He
will work in Bethel's Chris-tianity
and Psychology departments
and is to serve as a half-time coun-selor
for Bethel's students. Lewis
is "very happy about being at Beth-el"
and is "very impressed with
the students and faculty."
The model airplane builder and
flyer (he was also a flight instruc-tor
with the real things) is Mr.
David Perry. Perry, a Bethel grad-uate,
became a father last June 29.
She (speaking of his small daugh-ter)
"takes a lot of my time now,"
he relates. Perry is scheduled to
serve as a one-year replacement in
the Mathematics Department.
The former junior high teacher
is Mr. Dwaine Lind who comes
from Edgewood Junior High in
Mounds View, Minnesota, to be an
Assistant Professor of Education at
Bethel.
Education is also the field of
Mrs. Ruth Ludeman, whose hus-band
is an elementary school prin-cipal.
Mrs. Ludeman has taught
both at elementary schools and col-leges.
Her associate professorship
will be used primarily in working
with Bethel's elementary teaching
hopefuls.
Mr. Charles Reynolds is to be an
Assistant Professor of Physical Ed-
By Cindy Rostollan
Once upon a time, I spent the
summer in Kodiak, Alaska, and got
a letter from Mother. The letter
contained my student housing for
next year. I opened the letter.
frowned and shook my head. "Were
Mom and Dad going on a vaca-tion?"
Nope, by some mysterious
mistake, the brochure was a de-tailed
report of my apartment for
the coming year.
Living in Centennial Gardens is
an experience I wish all the Bethel
students could have, but alas,
there wouldn't be enough room in
the pool and sauna. So only 40 or
so were chosen to live here. The
apartments all have two bedrooms,
a nice sized living-room, a bath,
and a kitchen equipped with a gar-bage
disposal and a dishwasher.
The apartments are completely
carpeted.
Sometimes one could say that it
really isn't too convenient to live
here, for we're a long way from
Dr. Vern Lewis
Psychology department,
counselor
Ruth Lundeman
Education department
ucation. ,Bethelites probably will
know him best as the Royals' new
head football coach.
Assisting Professor Reynolds in
football and teaching Physical Ed-ucation
is Mr. David Klostreich.
Sensing the challenge (as he re-lates)
of helping re-invigorate Beth-el's
athletic program, Klostreich
will also be head coach in his own
right — he'll guide the wrestling
team.
Mr. Ralph Joly is a new staff
member in the English Depart-ment.
He is a Ph.D. candidate at
the University of North Carolina.
A man with experience as an art
campus, and the transportation
isn't the best. Yet I believe that
there is much here to off-balance
the transportation problem. Num-ber
one is it is terrific to come
home to a nice, quiet apartment,
drop your books and get ready for
a swim. The number two comes
once you're in the pool and sauna.
Because we're not in Bethel hous-ing,
there are any number of peo-ple
to meet all around us, and most
of those we've met (my room-mates
and I) have been in either the pool
or sauna. Number three is, once
you're back in your apartment,
there is an undisturbed place to
study or sleep (depending how ac-tive
you feel after a swim).
How the "little extras" we have
in Centennial Gardens will affect
our study habits and grades, re-mains
to be seen. The semester is
new and perhaps by the end of it,
we'll all be scholars or candidates
for yet another year at Bethel.
It'll be interesting to see how the
year progresses.
Dale Johnson
Art department
Ralph Joly
English department
designer and director is a new in-structor
in Bethel's art department.
Mr. Dale Johnson is the new facul-ty
member (and is also an art di-rector
for Allied Development
Inc.).
Mrs. Joan Olson comes to Bethel
as a Special Instructor in Sociol-ogy.
Her M.A. is from Michigan
State University and her husband
attends Bethel's seminary.
Miss Carol Morgan is not really
a "new face" in Bethel's teaching
ranks. She returns to her Physical
Education instructorship after a
year's leave and receiving her mas-ter's
degree from the University of
Northern Colorado.
Have a Gripe?
Letters to the editor
are welcome
letters must be in by
Monday of each week
type written, no more
than two double-spaced
pages
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as replacements, expansions
By Dave Greener
Bethel's overflow lolls
in luxurious apartments
at Centennial Gardens
Royal players scrimmage for season's first game.
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Royals lose
to Hamline
in football
By Bill Ankerberg
Last Saturday was a cold day at
Hamline Stadium as the Bethel
Royals faced the Pipers of Ham-line.
As far as the offensive thrust
of Bethel was concerned, the game
was uneventful, with the Royals
loisng 53-0.
It was nice to have a team this
year that didn't have to play both
ways, and granted that our Royals
were outclassed by Hamline, but
we should have done better than
we did. With a squad of mainly
freshmen this year, however, you
have to wait a while at the start
of any season for the team to jell.
It would be a lot more encouraging
to have a touchdown to report on,
but there were not any.
Aside from some isolated fine of-fensive
plays and a few bright
spots on defense, the game was
discouraging. Freshman Dave Asp
played perhaps the most commend-able
game on defense and should
continue to be a standout. "Putting
those things which are past be-hind,"
Bethel faces Sioux Falls
this Saturday. The prospects are
good for the season average if
things jell in time.
Schedule for Sept. 19
Off Campus II vs. Faculty 9:00
Second Old vs. New Dorm 9:00
Off Campus I vs. Pit 10:00
Third Old vs. Second New 10:00
First Floor vs. Third New 10:00
Results of Sept. 12 Games
Off Campus I 26, 3rd Old 0
3rd New 1, Off Campus 0 (OT)
New Dorm 1, Faculty 0
1st Floor 13, Pit 0
2nd New 8, 2nd Old 6
Opening soccer
game tomorrow
By Ray Smith
Once again the Soccer Club is
alive and well and practicing at
Como Park. The team has had a
bigger turnout than ever before
and is looking forward to its best
season yet. Most of last year's team
has returned and combined with
this year's frosh and the magical
touch of Coach Justin Abraham,
skill and spirit are reaching all
time highs. The first match will be
played Saturday, September 19, at
Concordia College in St. Paul. The
players are looking forward to a
tough contest and encourage your
support for this game which begins
at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, September 18, 1970
The Hot Corner will exist as an
all-purpose column with primary
emphasis on sports. Letters to the
editor are welcome and just may
be printed.
I was glad to see the huge Bethel
crowd at Hamline last Saturday.
The Royals are going to play win-ning
football this year, take my
word for it. Get out and see as
many games as you can—this team
deserves your support.
They say a certain golf nut is
wondering if it isn't time for him
to tell his youngsters about the
birdies and the bogies.
Honestly, any Miss America who
drops her crown . . .
The pennant race in the N.L.
East is hotter than—well, you
know .. .
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The Vikings used a drop of their
supply of magic in edging the
Bears 31-30 last week on a last
second play. They'll wish they had-n't
before the year is over. There
is a limit to the number of times
a team can pull out a game like
that. If Dick Butkus had been play-ing
the Vikes would have been
trampled.
For three (or four or five) years
the Chicago Bear offense has been
"101 ways to use Gale Sayers."
They threw screen passes to their
other backers successfully against
the Vikings. Glad to see it. In the
past the Bear offense has had about
as much imagination as tile Bethel
chef.
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Bill Rigney—quiet and ineffici-ent.
He's never won a pennant.
But this year, he's managing the
best of the worst. The teams in the
A. L. West have about as much
punch as a three-day-old glass of
root beer.
Cincinnati—what power! Their
lineup is so potent that they dealt
off Leo Cardenas, who in two years
has become the sixth best short-stop
in the American League.
Bill Rigney may be a goose when
it comes to jerking pitchers, but
he'll never top the one Preston
Gomez of the San Diego Padres
pulled this summer. Gomez remov-ed
Clay Kirby (who had a no-hitter
going) for a pinch hitter in the
bottom of the eighth inning. San
Diego went on to lose the game on
a home run in the innth. Preston's
excuse to reporters after being
lustily booed by San Diego fans—
"I play to win." The Padres were
29 1/2 games out of first at the time.
Ed Lopat, the former whatever-he-
was, made this comment when
he first saw Tony Oliva, "The kid
will never make it in the big
leagues."
Remember last winter when Joe
Kapp was a super hero and could
do nothing wrong? The Viking glo-ry
boy has been quickly forgotten.
It just proves that Minnesota fans
are as fickle as they come.
* *
Royal Star of the Week is David
Asp, freshman defensive back
from Rush City, Minnesota. Dave
intercepted a pass and made sever-al
fine tackles as a standout in last
week's loss to Hamline.
Shutouts dominated intramural
games last weekend as the teams
struggled to get their offenses or-ganized.
Second Old was the only
team to score in a losing cause,
falling to Second New 8-6.
Kevin Bishop scored a touchdown
and intercepted two passes, but a
TD by Dan Brodin and a safety
gave Second New the victory.
Scores by Reggy Henley and
Steve Ear11 and an extra point by
Rich Salzbrenner led First Floor
to a 13-0 win over the Pit.
Touchdowns by Dan Mogck,
Steve Carlson, Paul Zosel, and Mike
Barnes led off Campus I to a 26-0
blanking of Third Old. Jim Delich
and Paul Zosel added extra points.
New Dorm completed only two
passes during their game, but it
gave them the yardage needed to
edge Faculty 1-0. Third New went
into overtime before gaining a 1-0
win over Off Campus II. Gary Rus-sel
connected on a pair of passes to
Gary Clark for Third New's vic-tory.
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